Which of the following retirements of current senators is most damaging to their respective party’s prospects?

“The GOP will put out a Richard Mourdock/Todd Akin clone and lose yet another winnable seat.”

“Red Georgia is ripe to go blue, especially with the lousy GOP field.”

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Tom Harkin

“A for-sure keeper seat now up for grabs.”

“As a purple state, Iowa becomes a battleground that D’s will have a hard time holding in the off year. Not a great lead-in to the 2016 caucuses.”

Tim Johnson

“Iowa is salvageable; South Dakota is tough.”

“After a nearly 50-year run with McGovern/Daschle/Johnson, the seat almost assuredly going Republican makes South Dakota the ‘People’s Republic of South Dakota’—one party in absolute total control of the state.”

“Those big, empty, rectangular states are tough for us.”

Jay Rockefeller

“Rockefeller could have held his seat with his money advantage and his seniority in this small state that knows what seniority delivers. Hard to imagine any other Democrat keeping it.”

“Democrats have a weak bench in West Virginia compared to South Dakota and Iowa.”

“At least Johnson has some decent potential replacement candidates. West Virginia is about as Republican a state as it gets nowadays.”

“South Dakota was a goner, with or without Johnson. And Iowa is gettable. But West Virginia is lost now.”

“West Virginia is basically an Old South state that acts closer to Mississippi than Virginia.”

“Harry ‘Kill Coal’ Reid will cost his caucus this one.”

“Between the coal industry and the National Rife Association, West Virginia will be tough for Dems to hold.”

Which of the following retirements of current senators is most damaging to their respective party’s prospects?